Shell inlay art has been practiced in Africa for centuries, with roots tracing back to ancient civilizations. Traditionally, shells were used to decorate weapons, tools, and ceremonial objects. The ...
Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...
Shells have long been valued by societies all over the world for their diversity, beauty, and luminescence. Evidence from the Middle Stone Age tells us that shells were the first objects to clearly be ...
Hurricane Harvey didn’t kill the Texas Contemporary Art Fair, but bad art might. Art Market Productions’ latest Houston presentation at the George R. Brown Convention Center looks like a shallow, ...
Curved lines and block colors in shades of orange, yellow and blue create the image of an artist, framed by a border of abstract shapes. Look a little closer and you can see the artist’s beret with ...
Do you miss LACMA? I do. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art launched more than 60 years ago as an encyclopedic place to collect and explore global art history from the last 3,000 years. Now, history ...
Cover of Erika Doss's Spiritual Moderns featuring Agnes Pelton's "Sand Storm" (1929) (image courtesy University of Chicago Press) Religion influenced modern art's development far more than most ...
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